The ministers who have resigned over Brexit so far

As a Remain campaigner, the prime minister rose to office with a promise to unite the country in the aftermath of the EU referendum.

But she has suffered a wave of ministerial resignations, as senior MPs ditched their support for her - either because she was pursuing too hard a divorce from the EU or one they deemed not hard enough.

Sky News has rounded up the list of all those who have resigned over Brexit so far:

30 November
Sam Gyimah, universities and science minister

Image:Sam Gyimah has resigned as universities minister

The minister for universities and science resigned in protest over Mrs May's Brexit deal, calling it "naive" - while the PM was in Argentina at the G20 summit.

Writing on his Facebook, East Surrey MP Sam Gyimah said: "After careful consideration and reflection, I cannot support the government's deal and as such, I have tended my resignation as universities and science minister."

Mr Gyimah, who campaigned for Remain but represents a Leave constituency, labelled negotiations over Galileo, the EU's strategic satellite navigation system, "a foretaste of what's to come under the government's Brexit deal".

15 November, 3pm
Rehman Chishti, Conservative vice-chairman

Image:Rehman Chishti has resigned as Conservative vice-chairman

The Gillingham and Rainham MP has resigned saying he cannot support the draft withdrawal agreement.

In the run-up to the 2016 referendum he remained "undecided" until late in the campaign, when he declared he would be voting to leave the EU.

He has resigned as both Conservative vice-chairman and prime ministerial trade envoy to Pakistan.

Chishti said in his resignation letter that he was also quitting because he was disappointed by a "lack of leadership" shown by the government in the case of Asia Bibi, who was accused of blasphemy in Pakistan.

15 November 12:30pm
Ranil Jayawardena, ministerial aide

Image:Ranil Jayawardena has quit

The North East Hampshire MP quit, saying: "I cannot agree, in the cold light of day, that the deal in front of us today is right for our country. It does not deliver a good and fair Brexit."

He said the agreement "is not taking back control of our laws" and that he became an MP to deliver for his constituents and the country - not the EU.

15 November 10:22am
Suella Braverman, junior Brexit secretary

Image:Brexit minister Suella Braverman

The Fareham MP is the fourth to resign after the Brexit agreement, saying the Northern Ireland backstop "is not Brexit" and it threatens to "break up our precious union", which she said "could have been avoided".

She added: "These concessions do not respect the will of the people... we must not let them down".

Although she is not a minister, Mrs Trevelyan is a staunch Brexiteer who said she could not support the draft deal because the negotiations have been built on "the UK trying to appease the EU".

Mrs Trevelyan, who protested for fishermen with Nigel Farage on a boat in the Thames, said the deal would prevent the UK "from independently negotiating access and quota shares" for fishing.

15 November 10am
Esther McVey, work and pensions secretary

Image:Esther McVey reportedly had a contretemps with Mrs May

The Tatton MP was the second cabinet minister to resign on Thursday - and described the draft Brexit agreement as "a risk I cannot be party to".

One of the most vocal opponents of the deal, Ms McVey reportedly had a massive "bust-up" with Mrs May during the five-hour meeting in which the cabinet agreed to the draft text.

15 November 8:50am
Dominic Raab, Brexit secretary

Image:Dominic Raab resigned hours after cabinet agreed on the proposal

Mr Raab, Theresa May's second Brexit secretary, was the first cabinet minister to resign on Thursday morning after the draft was agreed on by cabinet - saying he cannot support it in "good conscience".

15 November 7:20am
Shailesh Vara, Northern Ireland minister

Image:Shailesh Vara was the first Tory to resign after the agreement was passed by cabinet

Mr Vara was the first member of the government to resign after the cabinet approved the draft Brexit agreement.

The morning after it was rubber-stamped he said he could not support the agreement, adding: "This leaves the UK in a halfway house with no time limit on when we will finally be a sovereign nation."

10 November
Jo Johnson, transport minister

Image:Jo Johnson backed another referendum

Proving that Brexit can divide families just as much as the rest of politics, Jo Johnson, brother of Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson, quit as a transport minister last Friday.

He warned the UK was "barrelling towards an incoherent" divorce and called for another referendum on the final terms of Brexit.

A Remain-supporting minister in Orpington, where a majority of people voted to Leave in the 2016 poll, Mr Johnson attacked the draft agreement for being "so radically different to what was proposed in the referendum campaign".

16 July
Guto Bebb, defence minister

Image:Guto Bebb resigned over the direction of the UK's divorce negotiations

Guto Bebb resigned as a defence minister in a surprise move ahead of a vote in the House of Commons.

He quit the government to vote against it on an amendment tabled by Leave-backer Jacob Rees-Mogg.

The Aberconwy MP complained that "the Brexit that is being delivered today could not be further from what was promised" and backed a so-called People's Vote, a second referendum on the final divorce terms.

10 July
Ben Bradley and Maria Caulfield, Conservative Party vice-chairs